Washington wheat grower is National High Yield Winner

Philip Gross had a final wheat yield of 184 bpa.

Nov 15, 2017

For the second year in a row, Philip Gross of Warden, Washington, was named the National High Yield Winner in the National Wheat Yield Contest with a final yield of 184 bpa – 247.7% higher than the county average.

The National Wheat Foundation’s National Wheat Yield Contest offers growers the opportunity to compete with farmers from across the United States and improve wheat productivity on their farms through new innovative techniques.

“This year’s national winners come from such wheat states as Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, and others,” stated Foundation Board President Phil McLain. “This diverse set of winners truly reflects the wheat crop and how it can be grown in various types of soil, climates, and terrains across the United States.”

The contest recognizes the overall high yield winner in two primary competition categories: winter wheat and spring wheat, and two subcategories: dryland and irrigated.

“NWF would like to thank each grower for enrolling in the NWYC, and thank our sponsors for helping to make the contest available to wheat growers in the US. We received a record-breaking 287 total entries this year and hope that this number will continue to grow,” said McLain.

“We celebrate the hard work of each winner and recognize the successful practices and techniques they used to help advance our industry,” said Scott Kay, Vice President, BASF U.S. Crop Protection, one of the contest’s sponsors.

The sponsors for the 2017 National Yield Contest are BASF, Croplan/Winfield, Indigo Ag, John Deere, McGregor, Monsanto, and Syngenta.

The national winners will be recognized at the 2018 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, California, Feb. 27–March 1. Official rules and entry details for the 2018 Contest will be available by Jan. 1, 2018, at http://www.yieldcontest.wheatfoundation.org/.